Create Your Account
- Create your user account, one user account per person
- One user account can purchase and hold up to 20 trading accounts or $1,000,000 in total sim capital, but each individual may only create one user profile
A simple five-step process from account creation to getting paid — plus the trading rules, account-management policies, and risk disclosure you should read before you enter.
The TradeSport Journey
Rithmic Connection
With a Rithmic data feed, your journey starts in R|Trader Pro, Rithmic’s own desktop trading platform:
- Download R|Trader Pro and sign your CME market-data attestation from within the platform (Windows OS required)
- Trade directly in R|Trader Pro, or connect to a third-party platform using the plug-in feature
- Your purchase includes a free ATAS license (recommended for Rithmic connections)
- Although Rithmic is compatible with platforms such as Quantower, Sierra Chart, and others, third-party platform support is only provided for R|Trader Pro and ATAS
Volumetrica Connection
With a Volumetrica connection, you trade on Volumetrica’s own professional platform, with market data powered by DXfeed:
- Advanced volume-analysis tooling; volume profiles, order-flow analysis, and DOM trading
- Platform license included with your Volumetrica connection
- For connection guides, visit the help page
DXfeed Connection
With a DXfeed connection, you trade on DXtrade — a modern trading platform that runs entirely in your web browser:
- No downloads or installs; log in with your provided credentials from any browser and start trading
- Advanced charting with a built-in library of 70+ studies and indicators
- Customizable workspace layouts, watchlists, real-time quotes, and price alerts
- Built-in calendar tracking upcoming economic events
- The simplest path from purchase to placing your first trade
Our One-Phase account is an Instant Funded account — traders skip the evaluation phase and go directly to sim-funded. Get paid in as little as five trading days.
Max loss: $1,500 intraday trailingDrawdown locks at $50,100 after your 1st payoutContracts: up to 3 minis / 30 micros
| Payout | Sim Profit Target | Winning Days | Consistency | Payout Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payout 1 | $3,000 (from starting balance) | 5 days · $200+ each | 30% | $1,500 |
| Payout 2 | +$2,600 (from post-payout balance) | 5 days · $200+ each | 30% | $1,500 |
| Payout 3 | +$2,600 (from post-payout balance) | 5 days · $200+ each | 30% | $1,500 |
| Payout 4 | +$2,600 (from post-payout balance) | 5 days · $200+ each | 30% | $1,500 |
| Payout 5 | +$2,600 (from post-payout balance) | 5 days · $200+ each | 30% | up to $3,000 |
Winning days — five days of $200+ profit each cycle; the counter resets after every payout. (These days can be consecutive or non-consecutive, so long as you accumulate five winning days in between each payout.)
Consistency — no single day’s profit may exceed 30% of the current cycle’s sim profit target. Exceeding the cap never blows your account or disqualifies you — it increases your profit target instead.
Consistency example — your first cycle’s sim profit target is $3,000, so no single trading day may exceed $900 (30% of it). After your first payout, each cycle’s target is $2,600, so the single-day cap becomes $780.
Consistency overshoot example — say you make $1,500 in a single day during your first cycle. That’s 50% of the $3,000 target, over the 30% cap — but your account is fine: your cycle’s sim profit target simply increases to $5,000, the smallest target where your $1,500 day is 30% or less. You can still get paid — you just have a higher target to reach.
Payout amounts are gross and use the 90/10 trader split — you receive 90% as cash. The 5th payout pays the lesser of 50% of your account gains above the starting balance or the cap shown, and the account closes after it.
Worked example — how your next payout target moves
Example 1 — you hit the minimum: you reach $53,000 (your $3,000 sim profit target) and withdraw your $1,500 payout, leaving your balance at $51,500. Your next payout unlocks at $54,100 — $2,600 above your post-payout balance.
Example 2 — you run past the minimum: you reach $53,500 before requesting and withdraw the same $1,500, leaving your balance at $52,000. Your next payout now unlocks at $54,600 — again $2,600 above your post-payout balance.
The next target is always $2,600 measured from your post-payout balance — it is not a fixed account number, and not $2,600 above your first sim profit target.
Credentials & Turnaround Times
- Platform credentials arrive by email within minutes of purchase (up to an hour during maintenance windows)
- Keep that email; your platform credentials are never displayed in your user dashboard (if you do lose your credentials, contact support@trade-sport.com to reset your password)
- After passing your eval and requesting the upgrade to sim-funded, your account is issued within 24 hours, typically available in under an hour
- If anything takes longer than 24 hours, contact support@trade-sport.com and we will get it resolved
Starting Balance
Simulated account size ranges from $50,000 to $150,000 depending on the challenge tier you select or the current competition’s guidelines.
Max Loss Limit
Accounts are blown (stopped out) if losses exceed the max loss limit set for the account or competition. Pay attention to whether the limit is an intraday trailing drawdown or an end-of-day trailing drawdown; they behave very differently, and a misunderstanding can blow an otherwise winning account.
Account Resets
Rather than resetting a blown challenge account, we issue a new one: if you would like a fresh start, simply purchase a new challenge and begin again. You can purchase as many challenge accounts as you would like, with active accounts capped at $1,000,000 in combined sim capital. For competitions, traders are eligible for up to ten entries but may hold only one active entry at a time; additional entries are queued until your active entry is blown.
Active Account Limit
You can hold up to a combined $1,000,000 in active simulated accounts across assessments and/or simulated funded accounts; stack any combination of account sizes that adds up to $1,000,000 in simulated funds. "Active" means an account that has not been completed, failed, or closed. Competition entries are counted separately.
Account purchases that would exceed the $1,000,000 limit will remain pending until one of your active accounts closes and a slot opens up.
Inactivity Rule
Challenge accounts, both evaluation and sim-funded, with no trading activity for 10 consecutive trading days are closed for inactivity. The count runs in trading days (days the market is open), not calendar days: weekends and market holidays don’t count toward the streak, so 10 trading days is roughly two calendar weeks. The rule applies per account; only the idle account is closed, and your other active accounts are unaffected. Trade at your own pace, just don’t go completely dark for two weeks. Any trade counts; even flipping a single micro for a ten-second trade resets the count on your inactivity limit. (Just show us you still have a pulse.)
Requesting Payouts
Request payouts directly from your user dashboard: open Withdrawal in the navigation menu and every eligible account appears there. Select the account, enter the amount you’d like to withdraw, and submit; your request runs through the automated payout review, and approved payouts are typically received within 24–48 hours via your selected payout method. The requested amount is deducted from your account balance, and we strongly recommend not trading that account until your payout is approved: the review confirms the account is still in good standing, so an account that breaches before approval fails the review and the payout is forfeited.
Commissions
Simulated accounts trade with the same per-contract commissions the liquidity providers and exchanges charge self-funded retail accounts; nothing is marked up. Commissions are charged per side. The most-traded products:
- NQ · E-mini Nasdaq-100$2.18 / side
- MNQ · Micro E-mini Nasdaq-100$0.71 / side
- ES · E-mini S&P 500$2.18 / side
- MES · Micro E-mini S&P 500$0.71 / side
- GC · Gold$2.40 / side
- MGC · Micro Gold$0.86 / side
- SI · Silver$2.40 / side
- SIL · Micro Silver$1.36 / side
Commissions range from $0.46 to $2.90 per side across all products.
Payout & Account Continuation
Hitting a payout milestone does NOT close your funded account, and it does NOT reset the account balance. After a payout is issued, your account balance stays exactly where it is (minus the payout amount you withdrew), and you continue trading the same account. The only things that reset are your progress counters; you have to re-qualify for each subsequent payout. Specifically:
- Sim profit-target progress, winning-day counter, and consistency-rule scoring window all reset to zero on every payout. To qualify for your next payout, you must fulfill the requirements from your current balance and satisfy all the rules. The consistency rule applies at 40% for two-phase challenges (both eval and funded phases) and 30% for one-phase challenges — and it is always scored against the current cycle, not your account lifetime.
- One-phase next-payout target: each subsequent payout requires an additional $2,600 (Beginner) / $4,500 (Intermediate) / $6,000 (Advanced) in sim profit measured from your post-payout balance, plus at least five new winning days at your tier’s threshold ($200+ / $250+ / $300+), with the 30% consistency rule applied against that new target.
- Two-phase path: complete your evaluation by hitting your equity growth target while following all the rules; once completed, you upgrade to your sim-funded account at no additional charge.
- Two-phase per-milestone requirement: every milestone requires $2,000 (Beginner) / $4,000 (Intermediate) / $6,000 (Advanced) in sim profit (milestone 1 measured from the starting balance, milestones 2–5 from the post-payout balance), plus at least five new winning days at your tier’s threshold ($150+ / $200+ / $250+), with the 40% consistency rule applied against that milestone’s requirement.
- For both One-Phase and Two-Phase challenges, trailing drawdown locks at starting balance + $100 after your 1st payout. No earlier trigger — the lock event is exclusively the first payout.
- Up to five (5) payouts per funded account. The 5th payout is the largest and closes the account afterward. For both phases, the 5th payout pays up to 50% of account gains above the starting balance, capped at the per-tier maximum. All payouts (one-phase and two-phase) use a 90/10 trader split. See your challenge card for the exact payout schedule. After the 5th payout, the account closes and you can start fresh with a new challenge entry.
Allowed Symbols
Futures products listed on the CME, COMEX, NYMEX, and CBOT exchanges — equity index futures (ES, NQ, YM, RTY and their micros), FX futures, metals (GC, SI, PL, HG), energies (CL, NG, HO, RB), agricultural products, and micro Bitcoin and Ether futures. The approved instrument list is the same across all account types at TradeSport.
Maximum Contracts
Maximum open contracts vary by product. Trade League competition accounts allow up to 9 contracts. Challenges scale with account size — Beginner ($50K) caps at 3 minis or 30 micros, Intermediate ($100K) at 6/60, Advanced ($150K) at 9/90 — using the standard 10:1 micro-to-mini conversion. See your specific challenge tier for the exact limits.
Manual Trading Only
All trades must be placed manually. Automated systems, bots, and algorithms are strictly prohibited.
Futures Only
Only futures trading is permitted. Options, forex, equities, and crypto are not allowed.
Trading Hours
Trading is open Sunday 6:00 PM through Friday 4:00 PM ET — trading closes one hour before the futures market’s official 5:00 PM ET close each day. Markets are closed on US federal holidays and any other dates observed by the CME Group. Trading resumes on the next regular session.
High-Frequency Trading Rule
No more than 40% of your net profit may come from trades held under 5 seconds or smaller than 16 ticks. Sub-5-second / sub-16-tick trades are what we define as high-frequency trades.
News Trading
TradeSport does not enforce a news-trading rule — you are free to trade through scheduled news events on any account type. Be aware that major economic releases bring sharply increased volatility and reduced liquidity: prices can gap, spreads widen, and fills slip. An account can be blown in a matter of seconds during a major release. You are solely responsible for staying informed of scheduled economic news releases and managing your positions around them — trading the news is entirely at your own risk. Key events to be careful around:
- CPI (Consumer Price Index)
- PPI (Producer Price Index)
- FOMC rate decisions and meeting minutes
- Non-Farm Payrolls (the monthly jobs report)
- GDP releases
Front-Month Contracts Only
Per the terms and conditions set forth by Prop Account, LLC, all trading must take place on front-month contracts — the current, nearest-expiration contract for each product, where market volume and liquidity are concentrated. Trading deferred-month (out-month) contracts may result in the loss of your account. For more information on contract expirations, visit the Help Center.
Challenge Accounts / Trade League
- Do not exceed your max loss limit / trailing drawdown
- Stay within consistency (no consistency rule in the Trade League)
- Achieve your minimum winning days (challenge accounts only — no winning-day requirement in the Trade League)
- No high-frequency trading or micro scalping
- No hedging — whether that be in a single account, across multiple accounts you hold, or in concert with other users. Hedging is strictly prohibited.
- Copy trading is allowed across your own accounts — but never across accounts belonging to other users
Hedging Strictly Prohibited
Buying and selling the same or similar instrument across accounts (or within one account) to hedge market exposure and guarantee that one account profits is strictly prohibited. This is banned in the live market, and it is banned here. Our goal is to prepare traders for the live market, not to let them game a simulated environment because the legal consequences don’t exist in simulation. For more information and examples of hedging, check out the help page.
Account Disqualification
The following are hard violations that result in immediate account termination. Pending payouts are also forfeited unless otherwise noted:
- Hedging market exposure across accounts (your own or coordinated with others)
- Using multiple identities or trading on someone else’s account
- Identity fraud or providing false information during KYC
- Initiating a chargeback for an authorized purchase
- Use of automated trading systems, bots, or algorithms
- Hate speech, threats, or aggressive language toward other users or staff in our Discord, social channels, or any TradeSport-operated community (this violation results in permanent removal from TradeSport communities and a bar on future purchases — existing trading accounts continue to completion under the governing Client Terms, and pending payouts are still issued.)
Soft rules — like falling behind on KYC — do NOT result in disqualification. Those are corrected with a lockout or a notification, not a ban.
Restricted Countries
Subject to compliance with applicable laws and regulations, traders from all countries may participate, excluding OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions and countries restricted at the platform’s discretion. Currently restricted: Pakistan, Russia, Cuba, Sudan, Somalia, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, and Vietnam, alongside all OFAC-listed jurisdictions. If the restricted list changes, the then-current list in our Terms of Service and the governing Client Terms controls.
Live futures trading carries substantial financial risk. In real markets, futures contracts use leverage that can cause traders to lose more than their initial capital, and most retail futures traders lose money over time. That risk is exactly why TradeSport exists.
TradeSport does not offer live futures trading. Every account on this platform is a simulated trading account that uses real market data but never executes real trades. Your maximum financial risk on TradeSport is the cost of your entry fee or challenge account purchase — nothing more. You cannot lose more than you pay to enter, and no amount of trading on a simulated account can put you in a deficit.
This is the point of TradeSport: build, test, and prove your trading skill in a competition format with capped, predictable downside, instead of risking your savings in live markets while you’re still learning.
Performance in TradeSport competitions does not guarantee profitability in live markets. TradeSport does not provide investment advice. If you choose to trade futures with real money outside this platform, consult a qualified financial advisor.
Disclaimer
TradeSport is an affiliate of Prop Account, LLC. All funding assessments are provided by Prop Account, LLC and all assessment fees are paid to Prop Account, LLC. If you qualify for a Funded Account, you will be required to enter into a Trader Agreement with Prop Account LC. Neither Prop Account, LLC nor Prop Account LC provides any trading education or other services. All such services are provided by TradeSport.
Challenge accounts range from $165 to $725 at list price, depending on the account type and tier; check the current promotion for discounted pricing. Trade League initial entry is $75, with additional entries at $50 each. Every fee grants you a simulated trading account with starting capital and the ability to earn performance-based payouts.
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